Why a hero ?
Try his contributions to education. He contributed to the development of several schools in the domain of music, dentistry, medicine. He was a hero of productive ability in Rochester.
Eastman knew how to make gelatine emulsion plates but by discovering that sulphur added to this emulsion could make a much better and longer lasting photo he had an edge on the competition.
He was making money from his inventions and innovations in photography and converting these funds to help his community.
Georges Eastman was born on July 12, 1854. He was not deemed much of an academic during his early schooling. His father moved the family to Rochester when Georges was only five. Here Georges Washington Eastman, the father worked on establishing a College. Perhaps George the son got his inspiration for his heroism in the passing of his father who hadn't had a chance to complete the College project.
The fathers passing left the family poor and George went to work at 3$ weekly for an insurance company. Some years later he tried banking and then grew fond of photography. By the age of 24 he was convinced that he would find a better and simpler process of photography at a time when photographers made their own gelatin emulsion plates.
A cow of an accident wrote the next chapter of the George Eastman story.
He passed away in 1932. The hero of productive ability, the inventor, the marketer, the philanthropist, the visionary, was chronically ill and took his life.
